Ban Arctic Oil Drilling

To:  President and other Elected U.S. Officials

We formally request that BP Amoco's Northstar project to drill for oil from an artificial island six miles off Alaska's north coast be permanently halted.

Oil would be transported ashore in a pipeline buried only six feet beneath the seabed. The safety of subsea pipelines are untested and unproven in the Arctic Ocean, an environment of solid or broken ice for more than nine months of the year, of extreme temperatures, harsh storms and months of darkness.

If the Northstar project is built, it opens the door for several other offshore drilling projects, and for leases and drilling throughout the entire Beaufort Sea. Opening this new oil frontier will have grave consequences for the climate, the Arctic environment, and the people who depend upon it.

It is our wish that this entire area be declared a National Monument. This last pristine wilderness is not worth sacrificing simply to line the pockets of a few of the already rich.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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